20+ hour, 32+ min ago   (56+ words) Piezoelectric polymers have long promised a future in which the flex of a shoe sole, the flutter of a breath, or the vibration of a bridge quietly generates its own electricity, powering sensors and wearables without a single battery swap....

21+ hour, 35+ min ago   (489+ words) Tin halide perovskites have long been the tantalizing alternative to lead-based perovskites in next-generation solar cells. They offer a narrower bandgap that is ideal for harvesting more of the solar spectrum, and they replace toxic lead with an environmentally friendlier…...

23+ hour, 6+ min ago   (614+ words) A team of geotechnical engineers has released an open-source software package that could upend how slopes, dams, and embankments are analyzed around the world....

1+ day, 9+ min ago   (698+ words) Perovskite solar cells have spent more than a decade rewriting the record books, but the most valuable real estate in these devices has always been the interface, the razor-thin boundary where the light-absorbing perovskite layer meets the contacts that siphon…...

1+ day, 54+ min ago   (55+ words) Three-dimensional printing has rapidly become one of the most versatile fabrication strategies for advanced energy storage devices, offering unprecedented control over geometry, porosity and material distribution. Compared with conventional slurry-based manufacturing, which relies on coating, calendaring and layer-by-layer stacking, additive…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (610+ words) Every day, the world’s digital systems generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and by some estimates roughly 90 percent of all data in existence has been created within just the last decade....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (76+ words) Data has become the defining asset of the modern organization, yet most institutions still have no reliable way of knowing how well they actually govern, manage, and safeguard the quality of that data. Formal maturity assessments exist, anchored in international…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (556+ words) Researchers have unveiled a data-driven framework that uses machine learning to decipher how the parameters of metal additive manufacturing shape the microscopic grain structures that determine a component’s strength, ductility, and durability....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (87+ words) Inside a modern commercial greenhouse, the difference between a thriving crop and a struggling one often comes down to data. Temperature, humidity, light intensity, and soil moisture must be tracked continuously and reliably, because the automated systems that regulate them…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (583+ words) Solid-state batteries have been heralded as the next great leap in energy storage, promising higher energy densities, improved safety and longer lifetimes than the lithium-ion cells that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles....